Sita Fenerty (Lewiston, 1985) is an abstract landscape painter whose oil works on linen distill the shifting moods of the natural world. Born in New York during a blizzard, she has always been drawn to nature’s abstract rhythms—its movement, structure, and silence. Now based in Crested Butte, Colorado, Fenerty works in close dialogue with the terrain of the West Elk Mountains.

Her paintings translate topography into gesture and color, layering thin veils of oil pigment with lines drawn from mineral ores collected in the landscape itself. This practice, which she calls neo-plein air, reimagines traditional plein air painting as an act of perception rather than observation. Fenerty’s mountain forms hover between representation and abstraction, revealing nature not as a scene to be captured, but as an energy to be experienced—alive, shifting, and deeply connected to the materials of its making.